Ammo & Reloading Discussion

Grindl wrote:After reading this last night ; I came within a hair of un-packing my barrel / receiver package and going to Bruno's to trade it out for a 6.5 barrel . Only thing that stopped me was I already have all the dies , tooling , and a very large supply of .308 Sierra and Berger target bullets I've been stock-piling for over a year .

Not to mention the 700 cases I've cleaned and prepped with hand tools for accuracy loading .Been planning this whole project for almost two years , but that 6.5 almost made me bite .

Is the case length 47mm. ?

Grindl, The case length is 53.36mm or 2.100"

"I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy." Isaiah 54:16 NLT

The bullets used for the dummies were 139 lapua scenar. Seating depth and overall length is kind of up in the air for now til we get a better feel for overall case length, throat depth, etc. Cases were worked up resizing new Norma brass with dies from ch4d.com

Been making my own variant on this case. More modern though. Took most of the case taper out and used a 30d shoulder. Also kept the neck as long as the original case. Have made a website to on all the details as I develop it. Working on a test rifle now for it. I am also giving it an entirely different name. The 6.5 BR Lapua

65brLapua.wordpress.com

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Been making my own variant on this case. More modern though. Took most of the case taper out and used a 30d shoulder. Also kept the neck as long as the original case. Have made a website to on all the details as I develop it. Working on a test rifle now for it. I am also giving it an entirely different name. The 6.5 BR Lapua

65brLapua.wordpress.com

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle